Dr Alan Payne

Specialist Prosthodontist
BDS MDent (Witw) DDSc (Otago) FCD (SA)

Memberships:

Registered Prosthodontist, Dental Council of NZ (DCNZ)
Member of New Zealand Dental Association (NZDA)
Member International College of Prosthodontists (ICP)
Member International Team for Oral Implantology (ITI)
Member European Association of Osseointegration (EAO)
Speaker for NobelBiocare, NZ
Speaker for Osstem Implants, NZ

Dr Payne has 40 years of experience across private practice, university teaching and senior management. Being the specialist prosthodontist at NorthShore Oral and Maxillofacial and Oral Surgeons, Dr Payne works alongside Dr Choi, Dr Goldsmith and Dr Rajpal completing rehabilitation of mutual patients and changing their quality of life and self-esteem.

His focus with the NSOMS surgeons is with cosmetic makeovers in younger adults missing a few teeth, as well as All-on-Four / Zygoma approaches on older adults missing all their teeth using fixed implant bridges and removable implant overdentures. Having worked in implantology since the 1980’s in numerous countries worldwide, Dr Payne has experienced the evolution of treatment options for patients with missing teeth from multiple historical analogue approaches to a state-of-the-art full digital workflow. Dr Payne also consults and treats patients needing complex crown and bridgework as well as those with temporomandibular disorders. He is well known for his expertise in implant overdentures.

With his surgical colleagues at NSOMS, Dr Payne provides robust prosthodontic input to interactive learning, didactic courses, and hands-on training programs. This includes lecture and live prosthodontic demonstrations to supplement similar comprehensive surgical components.
Dr Payne after hours

Dr Payne established Northland Prosthodontics Ltd in Whangarei, Northland where he spends weekends enjoying life keeping fit with regular walking and exercising locally and in the nearby world-renowned Bay of Islands. He is always busy with commitments for ongoing clinical research in oral implantology as an independent researcher.

He still serves as a reviewer and member of editorial boards for numerous peer-reviewed journals in prosthodontics and implantology. Also working for the Cochrane Collaboration, Manchester, UK, he is an author of several systematic reviews on implantology which require regular updates.